The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27
UF GENERAL INTEREST.
This country piles up $500. 0oo..
600 of wealth yearly.

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"A club Of scientists and linguist
has been formed in San Francisco
Cal, for the study of the Volapuk Ian
guage, the invention of a German
priest named Schleyer.
The Ohio Dairy and Food Commits
sion officially states that the stuff sole
as California "orange cider" is prin
! cipally tartaric acid and grape sugar
Favored with orange oil.
"A negro living near Calera, Ala,
let rattlesnake bite him for straw
hat worth fifteen cents. He put blue
clay poultice on the wound, swallowed
some plug tobacco, and next day
started of for camp meeting with the
new hat slanted over his left ear.
The Salt River Valley News says:
GAS an evidence of what civilization is
doing for the Indians, we noticed last
Wednesday in one Of our stores the
purchase of an immense wire hustle by
young and giddy Pima squaw. She
wasquite particular. and finally selected
one of the wire arrangements with blue
trimmings"
The making of glass is said to have
been taught the Egyptians by Hermes.
P!iny credits its discovery to Syria. 1t
was in use among the Romans in the
time of Tibelius, and excavations at
Pompeii show that windows were
formed of it prior to A. D. 20. 1t is
said to have been introduced into Eng
land by Benedict Biscop, Abbot Of
Weymouth, in A. d. 676.
Deacon Trenton, of Lanes Siding,
n. T., was cutting grass when he saw
queer-looking reptile, about four feet
and five inches in length and of a red
dish brown color. On the tip of its tail
there was Il horn over quarter of an
inch in length. 1t struck at the dea-
con with its tail. A random blow
stunned the reptile, however, and it
was quickly dispatched by well-aimed
rap at the farmers hands.
A German statistician announces
that mari has twice the attraction for
lightning which chalk has. and that
sand has nine times and clay twenty
times as much. Moreover tifty-four oak
trees and fifteen pine trees are struck
for every beech tree that the light
ming touches; so that, if one is caught
out in thunder storm. and must stand
under tree it is better to stand un-
der q beech tree which is rooted in
chalky ground than anywhere else.
A young Englishman says he is as
loniShed BY the number of cigars he
sees smoked on the streets in this coun-
try, On arrival he was "simply as
founded to observe transfers, porters,
cabmen II aye, even peddlers with
Notwithstanding cigars. In Eng.
land. you know, a man who never
smokes any thing on the street but a
cigar is looked upon as an epicure, and
if he is not gentleman of landed prop.
erty is regarded as very eNtrayagant
fellow"
Miss Lydia Broward. who lives
near st. Johns, Fla. recently adopted
Il novel scheme for finding an old and
shrewd hen turkey that had stolen her
nest. When the turkey came to the
house she caught it, and tied piece Of
strong bacon upon one foot. She then
watched it carefully until it started for
its nest. Then a good dog was placed
on the trail. and. guided by the scent,
soon found the cautious old turkey
threr-quarters of mile from the house,
and in the midst OF dense grove of
palmettocs.
Joseph Ellison. of Toronto. took
his two little boys out i'll small boat
the other evening and one hundred
yards from the dock one OF the boys
fell overheard. Ellison a poor swim
mcr, at once jumped in after him. and
graspcd the boy. who chung to his
neck dragging him down. The father
shouted for help, but the persons on
the dock thought that he was teaching
his child how to swim. Finally n boat
put out and, as it drew near. Ellison.
completely exhausted, pushed his boy
away from him, and. gasping "Save
the boy! never mind mc!' sank to the
bottom and was drowned. The boy was
saved.
Henry Wynn. a middle-aged bach.
elor, who has long lived in the North.
west, recently visited his brother in
owen Sound. Canals, and then
decided that he wanted to get married.
He didn't know a woman in town ex-
cept his brothers wife. and he offered
her fifty acres of land if she d find him
wife Mrs. Wynn went to work to
earn the money. but it was not until
her brother-in-law was about to start
for his home that she found maiden
lady willing to take the chances with
Wynn. The two were introduced just
rs the boat was leaving. A consultation
WAS held, the pair were married on the
spot, Mrs. Wynn received the deed for
tho I;ftv ,croS IF land and thp hrida